This is the website of the Books on the Broad reading group which meets in the famous Blackwell bookshop on Broad Street, Oxford, on the first Monday of each month. We just talk (and write) about books.

Each month we choose a book (or maybe two) and then meet for an informal discussion. We keep a written record of our meetings in the form of a Newsletter which contains critical reviews from group members and literary news of the moment.

The Books on the Broad Reading Group won the 2007 Penguin-Orange Broadband Readers' Group Prize. Naomi Alderman described her visit to the group in an article in The Guardian newspaper Into the lion's den. She writes "Their self-description sums them up best:

We take our books apart. We look at them from every perspective we can think of. If we need to know about the Spanish civil war to appreciate Hemingway, or local politics in Israel and Palestine to understand Khadra's Warning to the West, we will do our homework."

Use the navigation links at the top of this page to discover what we are reading now, what we have read and what we plan to read. 

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